Using natural materials to create art outside

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Colourful leaves, grass clippings, sticks, rocks, wild flowers—these easy-to-find natural materials form the basis of fun and waste-free outdoor artworks that will decompose again into the environment once finished.

Participants will follow along at home using materials found in their backyards or in local parks based on their texture, colour and shape. The lesson will include points about composition, location and documentation.

This video project is perfect for families, kids, seniors and adults of all ages and will guide participants to create a unique artwork of their own from start to finish.

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Haney Artists-in-Residence

Aaron Moran and Taryn Hubbard are the current Artists-in-Residence at the Haney Residency in Maple Ridge.

Aaron S. Moran is an award-winning artist and operator of the press Poor Quality. His sculptures, site-specific works and photographs have been exhibited locally and internationally. In 2011, he held a year-long artist residency at the Ranger Station Gallery in Harrison Hot Springs where he programmed workshops for primary and secondary students, seniors, as well as maintained the attached community art gallery. He has taught at the University of the Fraser Valley and University of Windsor in the areas of sculpture, printmaking, and interdisciplinary media. More information is available on his website.

Taryn Hubbard is a writer whose first full-length poetry collection Desire Path-which focuses on the poetry of place of Surrey, BC-is available through Talonbooks. She has led creative writing workshops with teachers and students at Surrey Schools and co-founded the South of Fraser Inter-Arts Collective, where she managed community arts programs, including budgets, grants and volunteers. See her website for more details.